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Paternity Leave

Paternity Leave is part of the Global Paid Parental Leave Policy “GPPL”

VMware recognizes the importance and value of its employees’ family lives and seeks to provide  a family-friendly environment that is supportive of working parents.  

 The Global Paid Parental Leave Program (“Program”) is intended to:  

• provide minimum leave and payment benefits for new parents employed by VMware; and
• support all eligible employees to take time off from work for pre-natal periods subject to applicable local law, childbirth, placement of a child for adoption, and/or to spend time with their new

A copy of the full GPPL policy is available here

A copy of the FAQ’s is here

Eligibility

This Program applies to all full-time and part-time employees permanent (“Employees” or “Employee”) directly employed by VMware. Subject to applicable law, contractors and non-employees are not eligible to participate in this Program. All active employees whose child is born on or after March 1 2022 are eligible for the leave entitlement detailed below.  If your child was born prior to March 1 2022, please note that the previous leave policy applies. To understand your entitlements under the previous leave policy please contact HR Source.

Entitlement

Employees are entitled to receive up to eighteen (18) weeks of leave, paid at their base salary rate (subject   to applicable law) or, for commissioned employees, on target earnings (OTE), where they seek time off from work for pre-natal periods subject to applicable local law, childbirth, placement of a child for adoption, and/or to spend time with their new child.

To the extent possible under local law, all GPPL will run concurrently with any other Local Benefits and/or any applicable contractual terms.

Employees who are the legal parent of the new child have twelve (12) months to avail of GPPL from the date of their new child’s birth or from the official legal adoption placement date or from an earlier date, if provided for by Local Benefits. GPPL can be used all at once or divided into a maximum of three separate  blocks of time, which do not have to be equal lengths of time off. For the avoidance of doubt, any Local Benefits already availed will be set off against GPPL.

The VMware GPPL program runs concurrently with the below therefore where the benefits are less than 100% of salary (including OTE for commissions) then VMware will top up the difference for the first 18 weeks. Thereafter the below benefits apply for the remaining period of leave

Paternal quota and salary –

In Norway, employees are entitled to a statutory  paternal quota of either 15 weeks or 19 weeks leave depending on whether 100% salary or 80% salary chosen. However as VMware has the GPPL during the first 18  weeks, VMware will pay 100% of OTE salary or 10 G (whichever is the higher) and for the remaining of the period you will be paid up to 10G of salary (inclusive of statutory payments from NAV which are up to 6G).

Benefits

All benefits will continue to be provided and subject to the terms and conditions of the benefit plan in force at that time. Vacation continues to accrue whilst on leave of absence.

Scheduling Paternity Leave

You must apply for parental benefits directly to NAV. This is done electronically via nav.no. VMware, via local payroll provider, will send a “digital inntektsmelding” to NAV in order for the application to be approved. Once you received your relevant document, please provide this to the payroll team for processing.

Please email your manager to agree on dates, then contact HR Source. HR Source will support you with queries on the benefit and will work with the responsible teams to ensure your Paternity Leave is tracked correctly. For the above paid absence, any balance not utilized cannot be carried forward to the following year. 

For additional support and resources to consider with the addition of a child to your family, see the Birth or Adoption life event page.